Prescription Drugs are Leading Cause of
Illness& Death; Medical
Care Is Not Healthcare

Hi, I'm Richard Ruhling,
MD, a retired physician who taught Health Science at Loma Linda
University after becoming board-certified in Internal Medicine. It wasn't
easy, but I now see prescription drugs as a leading cause of
illness, disability and death
.

I will share the medical literature to
support this in the middle column (>>>) but
first, let me tell you about the most overlooked cause
illness and medical symptoms, both by doctors and people--it
can be a food or chemical that we don't
suspect!

Let me give you an example.
While in Executive Health, I had one executive says that sugar
bothered his joints. Another said that cheese gave him joint aches. A
third said meat
was
a factor in his arthritis. They were smarter than I was to figure out a cause to their
symptoms.

When I got headaches and couldn't see a
relationship to what I ate or drank, I asked a neurologist who taught
medical students, and he said, what I ate or drank would be a "very rare"
cause of headaches. I later learned he didn't
know.
Most doctors don't know the cause of conditions in their textbooks that list most diseases as "Etiology [cause]
Unknown."

In my cases, I liked bread, pastry and
pasta--I was overdoing it and it became toxic to me. I didn't
listen to body signals like passing gas, and when
headaches came, it didn't seem related to what I ate. The
most likely time was
Monday
morning, but I hadn't been partying over the weekend, and I didn't hate my job--I couldn't figure it
out.

Though most allergists don't understand
this, one wisely diagnosed my problem and it works like this. If you
become allergiest to a food or chemical, it acts like a poison and you
develop a tolerance to it, like
to
nicotine. And people don't get sick when they smoke--they get sick when they try to stop smoking, on
withdrawal.

That's the way my headaches were. Monday
to Friday I took two sandwiches to work, but on the weekend we had oat
waffles (not toast) and other things that gave me headaches as withdrawal
symptom. Different
people
may get colitis, arthritis, gastritis from a food or chemical they don't realize is the cause of their
symptoms.

If you get symptoms and you don't
know the cause and you don't take a prescription drug, suspect the
possibility that a food or chemical is causing it. #1 suspect for many
symptoms is caffeine as in coffee, tea or colas. If this could be you, scan the list of
known problems by clicking on Caffeine
at this link
.

If you don't drink caffenated beverages,
you may still appreciate other information at Be
Your Own Doctor
!

Adverse Drug Reactions put 2.2 million people
in hospitals and 106,000 died,
"making these reactions between the fourth and sixth leading cause of
death." Journal of American Medical Assoc, 4-15-1998

But how many died at home? 199,000 according to the Western Journal of
Medicine...

The problem is that we need
medical care for emergencies, trauma and
childbirth, and most people think any serious pain is an emergency need to
see the doctor, even though, if you hit your thumb with a hammer, it will
be ok even without seeing a doctor.

There are a wide range of
chronic problems
that we brought on ourselves by what we put in our mouths since
childhood. If we were normal at birth and have problems now, we did it to
ourselves, but this is reversible if we can discern the cause and eliminate
it.

I wasn't smart enough to figure
it outfor my headaches
. I even asked the neurologist
who taught medical students if anything I ate or drank could cause my
headaches. He said that would be very rare for my type of [tension] headache. I later learned that he didn't know
either!

I loved pasta, pastry and whole wheat
sandwiches and by overdoing it, became allergic, but I didn't get a
headache when I ate them (two a day at work). I would get a headache after
a weekend of other foods (oat waffles was a family tradition on Sunday) so
that I was going through a withdrawal to a food that was a poison to
me like nicotine that I had built up a tolerance to, just as people don't get sick when they smoke--they feel bad on
withdrawal.

That's an example of a
wide range of symptoms from foods or chemicals. An example from
executives I examined is one who said sugar bothered his joints. Another
said cheese gave him joint pains. A third one said meat gave him
arthritis. These were smart men, but most people who don't figure it out get a prescription that sooner or later brings
trouble.

So I wrote this
book--

It has 100 topics from abscesses
to vaccinations arranged alphabetically
with natural remedies with a focus on foods and eating habits. It's for
sale on Amazon, but to be honest, you'll get more for your money for
similar price from the DVD and ebook offered at http://ChooseABetterDestiny.com

Instead of addressing the issue
with big pharma or FDA, Congress gets $400 million
a year donated to their re-election campaign by
drug companies. One senator, confronted with medical literature
showing drugs as a leading cause of death said, "You are wasting your
time, they
own us!" Here's another MD
insight:

You don't
think so? Watch this Big Pharma
Executive Tell the Truth:

Drugs
will kill you or make you sick sooner or later, but most people aren't
able to get out of
the system by cutting down
on their own.

Trouble
is coming with Obamacare. Please read the middle column >>>

Prescription Drugs

January 1, 2013, Richard Ruhling, MD,
MPH, Washington, DC

Western J Med.June, 2000. Deaths in and outside
hospitals from Rx totaled 305,000
then, with
8 million
admissions to the hospital and 3 million for long-term
care (nursing homes--these people were messed up for life!)

But if deaths increased 2.7 fold from 1998 to 2005, by 2013 they are
increased 5.4-fold.
Multiplying
305,000 deaths/year by 5.
4,
prescribed drugs killed
1.65 million
people/year--
these are not old people in nursing homes--most of them weren't even
in the hospital.

1,650,000 deaths/year
is 4500 deaths daily--like one and a half
9-11's daily!
Confronted with these figures, a U.S.
Senator said told me I was wasting my time, "they own us,"
referring to the pharmaceutical industry that spends $400
million/year
on congressional re-election campaigns, says (Marcia Angell, MD, former editor of
New England Journal of Medicine (60 Minutes' interview), now teaching at Harvard. These people are false to
their oath of office.

1. Drugs
relieve symptoms and people think everything is okay. You don'
t
have to be as careful whatyou eat. Your blood sugar, blood pressure or cholesterol will
still be "normal."

2. Drugs
do not cure disease. If they did, you wouldn'
t need another
prescription.

3. Drugs usually
have a long list of adverse effects that people would not imagine. A
purple pill (the ad said,
"heal the damage") has 120 adverse effects in the
Physician's Desk Reference.

4. Our
bodies don' t have a chemical
deficiency supplied by the drug, and they become toxic to it sooner or
later. Then they go to their doctor for the 'headache,
diarrhea, or abdominal pain'
for an additional
prescription instead of quitting the one that caused it. They are
now at risk for the leading cause of death, prescription drugs.

Congress is "dancing with the devil," says Marcia Angell, MD, in
The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us, 2004, published by Random House.
Angell says, "Drug companies promote diseases to match their drugs. Millions
of normal Americans have come to believe that they have
dubious or exaggerated ailments like 'generalized anxiety disorder,' 'erectile dysfunction,' 'PMDD,' and
'GERD." Government should get the drug ads off TV, but
congress likes the $400 million that drug companies
spend on their re-election campaign.

General Accounting Office reported that for a decade, half of hundreds
of drugs that were approved by the FDA had "serious post-approval risks,
including heart failure, myocardial infarction, respiratory failure,
seizures and kidney failure."

Pharmaceutical companies do not do long-term studies. They don't
want to know the results because they would be liable as tobacco
companies were. But why do our tax dollars fund their research through
NIH? And why do they get to push their drugs with TV ads?

Pfizer's torcetrapib
fulfilled its promise, increasing good cholesterol by 72% and reducing
bad cholesterol by 24% in patients who were also taking a potent
cholesterol-lowering drug. Despite the increase, the rate of
potentially deadly heart problems rose by 25%, deaths rose by 40%.
USA Today,
11-6, 2007.

Meanwhile,
scientists are discovering plant chemicals like lutein, lycopene and
sulforaphane that protect against blindness, cancer, heart problems.
What's the difference?
Drug companies cannot patent natural products, so
they focus on chemicals that relieve symptoms but do not cure.
They are greedy and deserve to be taxed like tobacco
companies to pay for the ever-increasing cost of medical care that their products
cause.

Medical Care Is Not Healthcare

The government is
pushing medical care as "healthcare," but there's an inverse
relationship between medical care and healthcare
, the more you depend on medicine,
the worse your health will be. Drugs create illness due to
Adverse Drug Reactions that now make medical care a leading cause of
death. Journal of AMA, 4-15-1998.

The article defines an Adverse Drug Reaction as from
a drug that is "properly prescribed and administered." It's not an
overdose or a bad prescription. It's just the way that patient reacted
unexpectedly.

But we should
expect it
--"Drug action always represents artificial
interference with the natural functioning of the organism. In the widest
sense of the word, every drug is by definition a poison, pharmacology and
toxicology are one, and the art of medicine is to use these poisons
beneficially."** Drill's Textbook of Pharmacology in Medicine,
Chapter 5: Intimate Study of Drug
Action.

Why are "pharmacology
and toxicology...one"? Pharmacology evolved from toxicology, as it studied
what dose of a chemical would kill half
the animals and now we're doing with humans--it's just not reported
in mainstream media as it should be because they like drug money. Half of
the ads during evening news are for drugs. We have become a
nation of druggies.

Marcia
Angell, MD, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine
and author of The Truth
About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About
It, decried the drug ads in the
media. She told 60 Minutes10+ years ago that drug companies spend $400
million on congressional re-election campaigns; by now it's a billion? A
US senator, confronted with medical literature that drugs are a leading
cause of illness and death told this author, "You are wasting your time.
They own us!"

**We might wonder how or why a doctor "might
use these poisons beneficially," but if a person's blood pressure is
sky-high from eating chittalings (hog intestines), it's better to take a
drug to get the blood pressure down than to have a stroke (burst blood
vessel in the brain resulting in paralysis).

Nathan Pritikin reported to the American
College of Cardiology that 186 of 218 patients got off their drugs for
blood pressure with a low fat diet because a high fat diet makes rouleaux
(blood cells become sticky and the heart has to pump harder to circulate
the blood).

Ruhling says cardiologists should have
embraced Pritikin with information on how to get 85% of patients off blood
pressure drugs, but their response was negative. They said he hadn't cured
it because if people go off the diet, their blood pressure goes up. He
adds that their response shows how broken the medical system is.

Pritikin's Longevity Center reported
65 patients with triple vessel disease that
had been scheduled for bypass surgery, but they
went to Pritikin's center instead. Three years later, 90% never had
surgery; and only one had died from heart disease. But in spite of these
great results, Pritikin got no
help from mainstream medicine, media or the heart association.

Bill Clinton got the
message and got on a low cholesterol, low fat diet from Dr. Caldwell
Esselstyn at the Cleveland Clinic because with no change in diet, surgery,
grafts and stints will soon plug up again.

Dr. Lester Breslow, Dean of UCLA's School of
Public Health, discovered in a 10-year federally-funded study that
normal-weight people who did not drink or smoke had a 30-year advantage to
those with an opposite profile that included exercise, 7 hours of sleep, 5
glasses of water daily--"happy" people who ate breakfast.

Ruhling says millions of people have no
appetite for breakfast because they ate late and they can't burn off the
extra calories that get stored as fat. He says breakfast and mid-afternoon
is the best times when people can eat more and not feel hungry when they
go to bed, and their stomach can rest when they do.

The government can't run the postal system
profitably at 15 times the cost of a letter when Ruhling was a child, but
he says they want to run medical care that's far more complex, because
there's so much money in it, they can't keep their hands out of the pot.

Ruhling thinks his
ill-health as a child was due vaccinations and mercury dental fillings;
he changed his diet in college and has only had one prescription in his
adult life. His last hospital insurance was purchased 40 years ago to cover
hospitalization when their youngest son was born. He wonders why he should
be taxed to cover the medical costs of those who want to eat, drink and
smoke as they please.

Our medical system
evolved to accomodate quick interviews and a prescription. Most people
decline to change habits as long as we have free government "healthcare."
It's a great society until the half who pay the pill bills can no longer
afford a 2nd indulgent half, but maybe economic reality is dawning?

Every nation practicing western medicine is
on the brink of bankruptcy because drugs don't address the cause--usually
our misdoing says Ruhling, adding that true healthcare builds wealth while
medical care invites ruin. Ruhling say he called General Motors to offer
his healthcare program nearly 10 years ago, but they said they had things
under control until bankruptcy later due to retiree healthcare costs.

Ruhling offers a wellness program to companies
to cut healthcare costs by employees opting out of the government plan.

Famous
Drug Quotes
The Father of Modern Medicine, Sir William Osler:
""Far too large a section of the treatment of disease
is today controlled by the big manufac
turing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in
a plausible pseudo-science...We take into our bodies which we
know little about, drugs that we know less about, to treat diseases that
we know nothing about."

If children receive flu vaccine, it can be even more deadly because
children are more sensitive to mercury and to the effects of depressed
immunity. Flu vaccine in children causes an increased incidence in
asthma by 200%. There has caused sudden memory loss in children and
adults immediately after receiving flu vaccine. . .

Very young babies are at extremely high risk
because their brains are immature; blood brain barriers are
'leaky' and more sensitive to
toxins. In the first two years of life, infants may
receive 22 vaccines with as many as nine shots in one office visit.
Many doctors feel this is criminal.

Nasal flu vaccines are even worse because they introduce a live
virus into the nasal mucous membranes only a few inches from the brain
where viruses can potentially travel upward via the olfactory (smell)
nerves.

VACCINES AND AUTISM

The evidence is overwhelming:Thimerosal and possibly
other ingredients can cause autism. On February 25, 2008 an
announcement came that even the Court of Federal Claims (the Vaccine
court) agrees, as a family was awarded compensation from government
(Dept. of Health & Human Services via US Assistant Attorney General
Peter Keisler), in the case of a little 18 month old girl who
immediately began a downhill neurologic horror shortly after receiving
vaccines for 9 diseases in one visit to the doctor's office. Two of the
vaccines contained thimerosal.

Vaccines aren't just prone to
produce autism; they have the potential to produce a variety of brain
damage syndromes, mild to
severe, depending on several factors embodied within the genetic +
nutritional + environmental variables. Cleverly worded distortions in
official press releases illustrate simply more ways that 'lying with
authority' can fool you.

SHOULD ADULTS RECEIVE ANNUAL FLU SHOTS?

It is estimated that a flu vaccine injection
yearly for five years running increases the chance for
Alzheimer's by at least
1000%. Flu vaccine can also cause anxiety and
depression preceded by brain inflammation especially in the elderly
who have high suicide rates.

In spite of these known risks with vaccines, there is
an all out campaign by public health officials and doctors to
vaccinate elderly people, not only with the flu vaccine, but with a
growing number of new vaccines. Many people report that flu
shots give them the flu. In fact, people die from flu vaccine. When
the elderly die after getting a flu shot, especially if months
later, it is rarely blamed on the flu vaccine. Deaths and disability
from flu vaccine far exceed deaths from the flu. . .

Flu vaccines are only effective in 30% to 40% of people who take
them and even that is questionable. There has never been strong
evidence of fewer hospitalizations or decreased death rate from
taking flu vaccines. This is another example of fact distortion by
authority in the effort to sell more flu vaccine.

Flu vaccine during pregnancy can dramatically increase the risk
for autism and schizophrenia. Most flu vaccines contain mercury
(thimerosal) and aluminum and could contain viral fragments. It
could cause multiple side effects in the brain including paralysis,
hearing loss, vertigo and brain irritability.

Flu vaccine over-stimulates the immune
system. It can suppress immunity for weeks after
receiving the vaccine. . . In people who die from flu vaccine, and
there certainly are a number every year, the actual cause of death
has often been reported as due to some other type of disease, but in
reality, their immune systems have been depressed, allowing other
diseases to become more deadly.

When Christ was asked about the end of the world,
He said to understand the book of Daniel. It begins with Daniel in
captivity (military force or martial law that Christ implied was the sign
in Matt 24:15). And in that setting, Daniel faced "Obamacare"--it was the
king's "healthcare" with his meat and wine.

Daniel
purposed not to defile himself. Similarly, Jewish Senator Joe Lieberman
showed concern that "the
narrowness of the existing exemption infringes on the rights of
individuals whose sincerely held religious beliefs would cause them to
object to medical health care that would be required under the
law." This is a time for
Jews and Christians everywhere to stand up and be counted for an
exemption.

Three Reasons Why We Should Seek
Exemption from Obamacare (as Daniel
did.)

1. Obamacare is medical care that has high risk of illness, disability and
death from drugs as seen at
http://LeadingCauseOfDeathPrescriptionDrugs.com (medical references and
videos by experts)

2. Obamacare comes with a National ID
Card. This infringes on our privacy.
They will know who we are, where we are, how much money we have in the
bank and how to take it--page 58 of the
plan.

3. Destiny. Of 4600 captives taken to Babylon (Jer 52:30),
they all became nobody's and lost their identity while Daniel and his
three friends who protested, became great glody men. .

The IRS says the cost of insurance for a person is $20,000
and for a family of four, it's about $22,000. That's not affordable with
the economy in the ditch.

For 30 years, wellness programs have helped companies save money
by helping employees to stop smoking or drinking, lose weight, avoid by-pass surgery or
the Emergency Room for flu.

An easy example is the flu--a costly problem if an employee goes to the
emergency room (average cost is about $1,000) to get an antibiotic, though
there's no evidence this kills viruses.

"The flu takes a week
if you have the right medicine, and 7 days if you don't." Well, it
really depends on us and what we do to overcome it.

First of all, how did
we get it? The flu season begins in cold weather when some people don't
dress well and they "catch cold" because when our extremeties are cold,
vasoconstriction to conserve body heat forces blood to the head and chest
and makes congestion.

Secondly, we get
the flu when we have been indulging our appetite with sweets from
Thanksgiving to Christmas to Valentines Day and Easter with chocolate
bunnies or Christmas candies. Sugar lowers our immunity when fresh
fruits and summer berries aren't so available.

Some add to their misdoing by getting a flu shot.
The evidence that it helps prevent flu is lacking and I had a nurse tell me
she lost a week of work after getting one.

Mercury is a toxic
poison used as a preservative in multi-dose vials of
vaccine. This highly toxic substance is used on infants whose
immune system is not well developed. Let them do it on their own kids, but
why allow the government to force it on others?

Greedy chemical
companies and bad government are unwilliing to look at facts like you see
here--

The video
was on YouTube but got pulled (drug company pressure?) The truth must be known, "no
vaccine, no autism."

If we lived well, we
shouldn't need vaccines. Here's an excerpt on Immunity from a Health Ebook
that I wrote. If you like this info, you may want the ebook along with a
collection of PowerPoints made for company employees on different topics.

Immunity

The body has an amazing ability to resist disease. All
around us are germs—bacteria, molds and viruses.

They can give us all kinds of diseases and there are no
medications proven effective against viruses. But the body’s white blood
cells are effective for most people unless we compromise them by poor
habits. For example, the ability of white blood cells to phagocytize
(engulf) a germ may be reduced 25% by

six teaspoons of sugar. That sounds like more than weever
get until we realize a can of soft drink has 9—12 teaspoons and the
average American gets 35 teaspoons daily!

It is no wonder that we suffer a flu epidemic every winter
after the holiday season. It’s a miracle we do as well as we do. Having
worked with high exposure to "the bug" from patients, here are some
practical tips that have helped me.

1. Upper respiratory infections are mostly caused by viruses
and no medicine is effective in killing these types of germs. Remedies
focus on helping symptoms or strengthening body immunity.

2. Because of TV advertising, many mothers get nervous about
children’s fever and zealously treat any temperature over 100 degrees.
Actually

fever is the body’s own mechanism to fight the
infection! Simply giving fluids is best in most
cases. unless the temperature is over 104 or there is concern about
seizures (usually in infants who haven’t had enough fluids to drink).

Giving Tylenol, aspirin or Advil to lower fever works
against the immune system, because many viruses are inactivated
at 102 or 103 degrees.

3. Fluids should be nondairy and
non-sugary because milk makes mucus and soft drinks lower the white blood
cell’s ability to phagocytize (eat) germs! Children may be taught to drink
water by good examples and by weaning them from sweet drinks by diluting
fruit juice more and more. Water is an essential ingredient for our
bodies. We should to drink five to eight glasses daily!

4. Sore throat? The best remedy is a charcoal tablet allowed
to dissolve on the back of the tongue. Science documents the adsorption of
viruses by activated carbon. The tablets are soothing, inexpensive and
useful for medical problems, including allergies, indigestion or food
poisoning, gas and diarrhea.

Animal studies in Russia suggest longer life span. The
reason you don’t hear about charcoal’s benefits is because there is little
commercial profit! Agatha Thrash, M.D. has written a 90-page book on its
many benefits.

5. Much discomfort comes from sinus infection. Drinking
water and eliminating dairy products (which make phlegm) is helpful, but
the most important tip is NOT to blow the nose because germs from the
throat are blown up to the sinus opening and infection is introduced by
blowing! Do the opposite to clear sinuses—sniff to ‘draw secretions from
sinuses down to back of throat.

6. No fever? Help your body mobilize its defenses by soaking
in as hot a tub bath as you can stand for 20 minutes, I have been able to
raise my temperature to 102.5 from normal by doing this. Finishing off
with a cold pour or shower can increase your white blood count and further
stimulate your immune system.

If you don’t eat, your white cells will be even more hungry
to "eat" germs. I have found this technique can get rid of flu symptoms
overnight, but it works best if you will institute the above measures when
you first realize you are coming down with it. Do not take drugs designed
to mask symptoms. They interfere with the body’s mechanism. I have seen
countless patients in clinic or emergency rooms who have taken all that
stuff for a week and wonder why they aren’t better.

The above information on
Immunity is from my 45-page HealthEbook that you can download. Here are
the Contents--

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osteoporosis in this country. It's not the lack of
calcium that we consume, but how much we can retain because high protein
causes our kidneys to excrete the calcium in our urine...

Can you see how impossible it would be to build
your bones by drinking more milk when you are on a high protein diet? Many
Asians, Indians and Black people have a lactase deficiency and can't
digest lactose (milk sugar), so they don't drink milk, but they have less
osteoporosis than caucasians who do!

The information you get in this PDF series and
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